Bezidu Nou / Bözödújfalu is a village in Mureș / Maros County, in the former Szekler Seat Mureș / Maros, known for having harboured, from the Reformation period ( presumably ) and at least until the Second World War, a Sabbatarian community, the only one left when persecutions against this faith stopped, in the mid-19th c. Sabbatarians first appeared in Poland and Transylvania as early as the 16th c., as an extreme and Judaizing form of Unitarianism, tacitly tolerated until the mid-17th c. They constitute just one of the multiple examples of Judaizing sects in the history of Christianity ( see e.g. the Subbotniki in 18th- and 19th-c. Russia ).

It seems that the Sabbatarians' reappearance as an accepted and tolerated group took place in 1868, when they organised themselves in Bezidu Nou / Bözödújfalu as a Jewish community. Until then, they had been forced to declare themselves officially followers of the 'received' ( i.e. official ) religions of Transylvania, and it seems they had preferred the Catholic Church. Thus, in 1850 Bezidu Nou / Bözödújfalu had 19% Unitarians, 33% Roman Catholics, 31% Greek Catholics and 15% Reformed. Only 8 people were Jewish. In 1869, nonetheless, there were 20% Unitarians, 23% Roman Catholics, 26% Greek Catholics, 12% Reformed and 20% Jews. The 20% Jews thus probably correspond to the 10% Roman Catholics or even more probably, taking into account the general tendency of Roman Catholic communities to expand as a proportion over time ( in other words, the percentage of official Roman Catholics right before 1868 was probably closer to 40% ). Besides this expansion of Latin-rite Catholicism, the situation looks similar in 1900: 21% Unitarians, 33% Roman Catholics, 17% Greek Catholics, 8% Reformed, 21% Jews. In 1930, Sabbatarians still formed 16% of the village population. In 1941 they appear as much fewer, but this census was taken under an anti-Semitic regime. When the Hungarian Jews were deported to the death camps, in 1944, many of the Sabbatarians shared the fate of their co-religionists, while others managed to escape deportation by proving their not belonging to the supposed Jewish race. During the Communist period, the community seems to have shrunk considerably, but estimates are hard to come by. Official censuses in those times did not survey religion and the Sabbatarians ceased to identify themselves ethnically as Jews.

Bezidu Nou / Bözödújfalu was intentionally destroyed in 1988 by flooding. Where the village used to be there is now a man-made lake, which supposedly serves water management purposes. Only a tiny part of the village escaped the flooding. Although the entire village population moved to other places, the village is still officially extant and has a small population of opportunistic Gypsy settlers. Today Sabbatarians virtually no longer exist.